I think this is such a fundamentally important issue in our contemporary society today that it really deserves amplification. This issue has a very immediate, ubiquitous impact on peoples' experiences of their personal finances and financial well-being.

I feel so very grateful for people like Moyers and his guest speakers, Taibbi & Freeland, who are willing to speak to this in such an articulate manner...

I am not saying that it is a bad or dishonest thing to try to sell your work. It is not. What I am saying is that I am tired of the rush to commodify everything, to turn everything into products, including people. I don’t want a brand, because a brand limits me. A brand says I will churn out the same thing over and over.

Holding a warm cup of coffee makes us friendlier • Red type on a test leads to poorer performance • A heavy clipboard can make your CV seem more impressive •...

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Fascinating talk about embodied cognition and how our thoughts, feelings, and behavior can be significantly influenced by our sensory experiences and bodily states, often outside of our conscious awareness. Good stuff! :)

"The “sharing economy” has attracted a great deal of attention in recent months. Platforms such as Airbnb and Uber are experiencing explosive growth, which, in turn, has led to regulatory and political battles. Boosters claim the new technologies will yield utopian outcomes—empowerment of ordinary people, efficiency, and even lower carbon footprints. Critics denounce them for being about economic self-interest rather than sharing, and for being predatory and exploitative. Not surprisingly, the reality is more complex." - See more at: http://greattransition.org/publication/debating-the-sharing-economy#sthash.N686T0lY.dpuf

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I thought this recent piece, by Juliet Schor of Boston College, does a great job of exploring the broader social and economic impact that these peer-to-peer enabling technologies are having, as well as the potential impact they may have going forward as we increasingly engage with one another within these sharing ecosystems, using these technologies.

I found it worthwhile listening to both talks to get a clearer sense of Roberts' perspective on Smith. And I'm left curious about whether he and Michael Sandel are as far apart in what they each espouse as he seems to suggest... Good stuff! :)

The worker cooperative movement has hit a new stride. Re-emerging in the 1960s, cooperatives tend to elicit thoughts of natural food stores and specialty bookshops but the movement has grown to include tech companies, coworking spaces, international businesses, large factories and much more.

"We are embedded beings who create work in a social context, toiling shared soil in the hopes that our labor bears fruit. It is up to all of

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Really good perspective piece.

"These questions are important, but the way they are framed tends to make technology too central, granting agency to tools while sidestepping the thorny issue of the larger social structures in which we and our technologies are embedded."

Does great wealth bring fulfillment? An ambitious study by Boston College suggests not. For the first time, researchers prompted the very rich—people with fortunes in excess of $25 million—to speak candidly about their lives. The result is a surprising litany of anxieties: their sense of isolation, their worries about work and love, and most of all, their fears for their children.

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Insights into the Promises, Benefits, and Limits of What More Money and Financial Wealth Can Offer Us

Some food for thought when considering the role of money in our lives... There's a pervasive cultural assumption in our society that having more money and wealth will allow us to realize more fulfilling and trouble-free lives, along with a greater sense of financial well-being. A unique and insightful study suggests that having a great deal of both money and financial wealth can certainly help with some, but not all, of life's challenges.

The Economy. Everyone’s talking about it, but who can explain it? 20 award­-winning directors and 10 of our most respected economists add their voice to the chorus with a thought­-provoking short­-film series.

Debate is contention in argument; dispute, controversy; discussion; especially the discussion of questions of public interest in Parliament or in any assembly. Debate is a method of interactive and representational argument.

I think one of the most critical tools for digital literacy, in particular for critically evaluating information and sources we might encounter, is an understanding of the distinction between debate, deductive reasoning, factual argument and rhetoric...

"Debate is a broader form of argument than deductive reasoning, which only examines whether a conclusion is a consequence of premises, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case, or rhetoric, which is a technique of persuasion."

An interesting piece that considers contemporary networks as an evolution of 17th century, European salon culture. I suspect this "great desire to spend some hours with likeminded peers" is something fundamental in the human experience, and that we could probably find similar examples across a range of human societies.

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